Improvement in sleigh-bells



J. M. AOKLEY Sleigh-Bell.

No; 219,192.- Pafented Sept. 2,1879.

N. PETERS, PHOTOJJTHDGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D12- PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED STATES JOHN M. ACKLEY, OF EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLElGH-BELLS.

, Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,192, dated September 2, 1879; application filed April 9, 1879.

To all whom'it may concern: A

Be it known that I, JOHN M. ACKLEY, of East Hampton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Attaching Sleigh-Bells, and I i do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon,to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, sectional side .view as attached to a shaft; Fig. 2, modification of the attaching device; Fig. 3, plan View of the socket.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of attaching sleigh-bells to the and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A is a plate, in which is formed a socket, a. The socket consists of a transverse slot, 1), and seats or bearings v0, longitudinally or at right angles to said slot, as seen in Fig. 3. The bell is provided with a shank, d, toextend upward through the slot 1), then a pin, 6, passed through the shank d, so as to set into the bearings 00;

or the shank may be formed with trunnions.

The plate A is then secured to the under side of the shaft, as seen in Fig. 1, leaving the bell free to swing transversely or in a plane parallel with the slot b. Each bell being provided with such a plate, A, the bells are independent of each other, and may therefore be conveniently attached in any number desirable; or one or more may be removed without neces sarily disturbing those remaining.

Instead of the stud d, the bell may be made with a shank, as seen in Fig.2, and the socket formed by a pair of cars, and a pin introduced through the ears and shank, as seen in Fig. 2. In any case the plate A is provided with screwholes f, as a means for securing the plate to the shaft. I

I am aware that sleigh-bells have been at tached each to independent plates, and therefore do not broadly claim such device; but I am not aware that bells have been provided with a shank hinged by a transverse pintle through said shank. Therefore,

What I claim is-- The combination of the plate A, constructed with a slot, b, combined with a bell constructed with a rigid shank, d, and hinged to swing freely in said slot by a transverse pin, 6, and a free hammer hung inside said bell, all substantiall y as described.

JOHN M. ACKLEY.

Witnesses:

J 0s. 0. EARLE, JOHN E. EARLE. 

